Fingerprints lead to Uniondale burglary arrest

Using latent fingerprints found at a burglarized house in Uniondale, Nassau police detectives tracked down and, on Tuesday night, arrested a woman who lives just down the street, a police report said.

First Squad detectives cracked the Nov. 1 noon break-in with the arrest of Blanca Perez, 35, who broke into her neighbor's house on Union Drive by putting a plastic milk crate under an unlocked rear kitchen window and then crawling through, the police report said.

Perez was arrested at her 777 Union Dr. home at 1:35 p.m. Tuesday by First Squad Detectives Frank Ruvolo and Maurice Baran.

As Perez went through the house and stole jewelry, cash and Nintendo and PlayStation games, she left fingerprints on the rear window, on a jewelry box and elsewhere, and crime scene detectives lifted the prints then matched them to her, the police report said.

Perez is charged with second-degree burglary and she faces arraignment Wednesday at First District Court, Hempstead.

By BY JOSEPH MALLIA
Posted Tuesday, April 1, 2008

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